Morphological brain changes as a consequence of new learning have been widely established. Learning a second language (L2) is one such experience that can lead to rapid structural neural changes. However, still relatively little is known about how levels of proficiency in the L2 and the age at which the L2 is learned influence brain neuroplasticity. The goal of this study is to provide novel ev...

based on the controversial beliefs among l2 teachers about effective corrective feedback (cf) strategies, recast and prompts as 2 kinds of cf have drawn the attention of l2 researchers(e.g., braidi, 2002; iwashita, 2003; loewen & philp, 2006; panova & lyster, 2002; sheen, 2004). despite these numbers of studies, debate continues to exist about their usefulness as a cf technique. whereas...

In this paper, a discrepancy-based framework is first presented for outlier and insider detections purpose. Given any sequence of profiles, a local discrepancy first identifies regions where the profiles are clumped or scarce then a global L2 discrepancy summarizes the overall distribution patterns of the data into one real value. A L2 discrepancy learning process is formulated to rank each pro...

This study investigated the relationship of the attitudes and cultural background of Arab students in Israel to their reading comprehension of stories from Jewish and Arab culture. Participants were 74 eighth-grade Arab students (age 14±15 years) from Israel, learning Hebrew as a second language (L2). An attitude questionnaire, stories from Arab and Jewish culture and multiple-choice questions ...

Alice Chik, City University of Hong Kong The relationship between digital game play and second language (L2) learning is a particularly tricky issue in East Asia. Though there is an emerging presence of Chinese online games, many more young people are playing the Englishor Japanese-language versions of the most popular commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games. In other words, most Chinese ga...

This study sought to investigate the effect of teacher codeswitching, as compared to monolingual (L2) instruction, on L2 vocabulary learning and retention. Though a sizeable body of research on teacher beliefs and behavior regarding classroom L1 use has diminished the efficacy of monolingual pedagogy, the potential of strategic codeswitching for facilitating L2 learning has only recently come u...

the present study intended to investigate the processing behavior of 2 groups of l2 learners of english (high and mid in proficiency) and a group of english native speakers on english active and passive reduced relative clauses. three sets of tasks, an offline task, and 2 online tasks were conducted. results revealed that the high-proficiency group’s performance was the same as that of the nati...

Previous research has suggested a lack of plasticity for second-language (L2) perceptual learning even in individuals who learned their L2 in childhood. This study examined the discrimination of English vowels by native (L1) Spanish speakers who learned English in childhood. Results showed that early bilinguals’ performance was much more similar to that of English monolinguals (though differenc...